The dazzling new masterwork from the prophet of silicon valley. Jaron Lanier is the bestselling author of You Are Not a Gadget, the father of virtual reality, and one of the most influential thinkers of our time. For decades, Lanier has drawn on his expertise and experience as a computer scientist, musician, and digital media pioneer to predict the revolutionary ways in whi...(展开全部)

The dazzling new masterwork from the prophet of silicon valley. Jaron Lanier is the bestselling author of You Are Not a Gadget, the father of virtual reality, and one of the most influential thinkers of our time. For decades, Lanier has drawn on his expertise and experience as a computer scientist, musician, and digital media pioneer to predict the revolutionary ways in whi...(展开全部)

The definitive account of how multinational corporations have seized control of intellectual property rights. In a few short years, the battle over intellectual property rights has emerged from obscurity to become front-page news. The continent-hopping, three-year court battle fought by activists to bring cheap versions of desperately needed AIDS drugs to South Africa is but on...(展开全部)

Peter Drahos is a law professor and director of the Centre for the Governance of Knowledge and Development at the Australian National University. He is the author of A Philosophy of Intellectual Property and, with John Braithwaite, Global Business Regulation. John Braithwaite is a distinguished professor at the Australian National University. His major works include Corporate C...(展开全部)

You can't copyright facts, but is news a category unto itself? Without legal protection for the "ownership" of news, what incentive does a news organization have to invest in producing quality journalism that serves the public good? This book explores the intertwined histories of journalism and copyright law in the United States and Great Britain, revealing how shifts in techno...(展开全部)

By the 1800s, a century of feverish discovery had launched the major branches of science. Physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy made the natural world explicable through experiment, observation, and categorization. And yet one scientific field remained in its infancy. Despite millennia of observation, mankind still had no understanding of the forces behind the wea...(展开全部)

By the 1800s, a century of feverish discovery had launched the major branches of science. Physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy made the natural world explicable through experiment, observation, and categorization. And yet one scientific field remained in its infancy. Despite millennia of observation, mankind still had no understanding of the forces behind the wea...(展开全部)

珍妮·厄格洛 英国传记作家、历史学家、评论家和资深出版人，曾任 Chatto & Windus主编。曾撰写伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔（Elizabeth Gaskell），威廉·霍加斯（William Hogarth），托马斯·贝威克（Thomas Bewick）和爱德华·李尔（Edward Lear）的传记，备受好评。The Lunar Men： The Friends Who Made The Future是其代表作，以优美流畅的文笔讲述了工业革命时期，月光社成员如何以自己致力终身的兴趣和事业在历史中留下其轨迹，引导着英国工业化社会发展。